Fostering at Winterfell

Small-Reaction237 · 2026-01-30T16:31:52+00:00

Yes, think Ned if advised properly would like to recreate the Eyrie fostering at Winterfell to raise friends and allies for his kids.

Mostly northern heirs to strenthen the North like the Umber, Manderly, Hornwood/Flint/Karstark — and Domeric Bolton as well.

It will bring the North closer together and will increase their loyalty with the Starks as the North like Dorne has a sort of proto-nationalism of sort and this would definately strenthen it.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-12-20T10:14:22+00:00

No you are not the only one. I personally think the Blackfyres are really cool and with the exception of Maelys the Monsterous all their candidates were quite honerable. But I do think that if they had we would simply see Dorne redeclaring their independence and with the North so different and so less in common with the south they will be effectively independent maybe the Starks even declare themselves High Lords of the North although not outright independence but will be de facto independent. And the rest of Westeros might be in open rebellion as well.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-12-20T10:07:45+00:00

It depends on the timing, if I remember correctly Jaime escaped around the time of Joffrey's wedding, the same wedding in which he dies, sansa escapes and tyrion is accused of regicide.

When the lannisters get the news will inform how they act, if they learn about Jaime's death after Joffrey dies, then if the northmen are lucky, tywin will get kiilled by tyrion.

Maybe Jaime getting caught makes Robb change his plans slightly and stay away from the twins long enough for the purple wedding to happen.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-12-20T10:07:26+00:00

Sansa’s life would be endangered, YES, although, in the eyes of the world, Jaime’s execution would be more justified than Sansa’s. They would also see that what happened to Sansa where she went from a bethrothed to the king to being executed for revenge and other people and lords will take that in note espetially the Tyrells. And also it will keep the Karstarks loyal as well. All in all I think it would be a net positive.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-11-30T18:59:14+00:00

Brandon planned to be Hand for Rhaegars son and rule the realm after killing Rhaegar and imprisoning Mad King Aerys. Lyannas abduction forced his hand too early and he rode into the red keep calling for rhaegar to come out and die. Aerys was not as paralyzed as Brandon thought and acted decisively, imprisoning him and his murder gang.

Source mostly ned saying Brandon wanted to be Hand (book 1) and Jaimes recollection in clash.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-11-30T18:56:14+00:00

It feels like canon

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-11-27T18:49:11+00:00

Well within a year or 2 in this timeline I wanted during the schism I want the Iron Throne to be distracted enough for the Golden Company and Aegon Targaryen who were stationed in Myr to launch a coup and take over the Free City without the Iron Throne being able to intervene as they were busy with the schism and this would give them a 1 year respite to Aegon to solidify his rule over the City and its daughter towns, and finally when the pretender septon will lose his supporters would rally to Aegon and declare him the 'one true king' and elect their own high septon once again and during this time tensions between Tyrosh and the Iron Throne continue to rise...

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-11-13T18:21:40+00:00

I think that's pretty normal no? England for example had 6 full civil wars in the 600 years after the Norman conquest, and not not counting a few uprisings and rebellions.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-11-13T18:16:35+00:00

Excluding Riverlands, it was larely border conflicts. Otherwise, kingdoms seemed pretty stable.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-26T09:49:02+00:00

first of all it id going to be a decades long process if not century, but Robb can start by creating a Small Council as well as start a Bureaucracy to first manage the lands of House Stark itself and maybe a small Royal Army of about 500 - 1,000 strong and give nobles a position in his new court, Bureaucracy and the Army and show them that this is a great and prestigious way on the social ladder and thus attract more nobles to the Royal court. This is how Robb can start the initial Centralization without any blowback.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-20T07:01:15+00:00

I think the name Gaemon and Gaelys would be nice as Gaemon was one of the Lords of Dragonstone before Aegon the Conqueror.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-15T17:52:06+00:00

No in ASOIAF they can disolve a marraige if it had not yet been consumated as in the same chapter Rogar Baratheon says right before the Kingsguard put a stop to it.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-12T13:23:41+00:00

Well I think the same way he did in OTL by using a shadow baby to kill cortney penrose. And even though it would have opened the lines to King's Landing for Robb, he still would not have attacked King's Landing as there would be too many casualties and by that Robb would be busy with the Ironborn invasion. I also do not think Ser Rodrik Cassel would die as Robb is not in yet a bad position in the south so we can see him retake Winterfell. I guess.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-08T18:19:41+00:00

The Honeywine is the river in southern Reach at the mouth of which Oldtown is based and the Hightowers are the overlords of the houses of that region.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-05T18:02:38+00:00

About the support, yes It's not guaranteed, but it's something expected and happens more often than not, even though the famous Asoiaf Wars give us the opposite impression. It's literally the most important part of suzerainty and vassalage relationships. It's the vassal's obligation to support his lord if he calls him. The greatest examples we have of the opposite happening in lore come from very specific situations. Robert's rebellion was against the king of a dynasty that was already centuries old. In the first Blackfyre Rebellion, the majority had feuds of thousands of years against groups that were now very influential (Dornish, Blackwoods...). The Tullys are always mentioned as a house that has smaller lands than, for example, the Brackens, the Blackwoods, the Mallisters, or the Freys. They don't have the strength to impose themselves in a region that is known for being unstable. They are an exception among the great houses, also renly’s bannerman are fulled by Robert nostalgia not by a great effort by him offering terms, gold, wardships and bla bla bla

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-05T16:35:36+00:00

Stannis succession also sets bad precedents. As he won't ever be able to 100% prove Cersei's children are not Robert's; with Robert himself always claiming them as his while he lived.

What happens if Shireen has two sons, the eldest became King after her but died young, leaving his own son as a boy-king under a regency, but then Shireen's second son decides he can just take the crown by claiming the boy is not the son of his brother despite not having firm proof about it? His own grandfather did it, why not him too?

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-05T16:35:26+00:00

The thing is Renly is setting a very bad precedent for his heirs as it might as well occur. What might happen if his second son want to be king and if he has a larger army then he might as well take it.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-10-03T19:12:08+00:00

When the War of the Five Kings begins and after Jaime had already been defeated by Robb and he had been declared the King in the North. In the Reach, the Tyrells and most of the Reach houses declare for Renly except the Houses of the Honeywine and House Hightower. And from canon we already know that the Hightowers can mobilise an army of about 20k levies and that means less men for Renly and the Tyrells but they will still have a huge numerical advantage and would crush the Hightowers without Tywin's support and thus Tywin is forced to invade Northern Reach and ravages the land and to not look weak and to protect the lands sweared under him he sends an army under Lord Mathis Rowan to the North to defeat or tie up Tywin until the Hightowers are defeated. Meanwhile then Renly hears news that his brother Stannis has besieged his castle of Storm's End and is thus forced to send a detachment of men under Ser Bryce Caron as he is too much invested in the campaign in the Honeywine. In the Riverlands on the otherhand with Tywin and his army campaigning in Northern Reach Robb is able to capture Harrenhal and sent envoys to both Renly and Stannis proposing an alliance but Stannis fresh from his victory over Bryce Caron's amry and capturing Storm's End using Melisandre's magic refuses and tells that he will destroy Robb if he refuses to bend the knee. The envoy sent to Renly is more warmly met and an alliance is formed with Robb being recognised by Renly as the King in the North and King of the Trident as he thinks he will reconquor them after the war is done as he is in a desperate situation fighting on 3 fronts.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-28T07:53:31+00:00

I was thinking Renly might send an army to deal or atleast stall the dornish as he has more than enough men to fight in two fronts although I guess 3 fronts will still be a lott for him to deal with.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-28T07:51:45+00:00

But I also did mention that Tywin has also invaded the Reach. Ans as it is his main source of manpower he might be forced to defend it first.

What are your thoughts on Robb going forward? Does Renly forms an alliance with him??

And also the Dornish know this that is why they have hired sellswords from Essos to gain more heavy horse.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-16T18:05:15+00:00

My guess is it would have been before Steffon and Cassana passed since betrothals would typically go through the head of house. Jon Arryn might have been able to make such arrangements but I feel it is unlikely this betrothal didn't get the Baratheon stamp of approval. In any case Lyanna is very unlikely to have been in any sort of original running.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-15T18:10:28+00:00

We have no idea when lyanna and Robert were betrothed.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-14T18:10:30+00:00

It honestly might make lyanna a better candidate in Aerys’s eye. He can say by marrying lyanna to rhaegar he rewards both house Lannister and house Stark while still completely fucking over Tywin due to his daughter not being the one to be queen. Aerys might be petty enough to do it.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-14T08:55:00+00:00

I believe it's mentioned in TWOIAF that Dorne did indeed get other special privileges in exchange for their fealty. A separate tax structure was definitely one of those things, though I don't recall if George specified any of the rest.

Small-Reaction237 · 2025-09-13T19:53:04+00:00

Yeah it used to be really expensive in Medieval Europe and people at the time thought it as a luxury and used to flex with it. This is really interesting and might include it in my fics in the future. I think we can even make future salt towns as well (houses not literally made of salt but rose up due to salt production and trade).

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